Egypt is the leader in the export of fresh strawberries to Malaysia and the fifth largest exporter to Southeast Asia

Published 2023년 5월 10일

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Egypt has emerged as the largest exporter of fresh garden strawberries to Malaysia in the 2021/22 season, significantly increasing its exports to the Southeast Asian market, where it now ranks fifth. Exporting over 740 tons to Malaysia in the 2021/22 season, Egypt has outpaced its competition, with South Korea being the only notable competitor. The Southeast Asian market imports approximately 16,000 tons of strawberries annually, with Malaysia showing the most significant increase in imports over the past five seasons. Other countries like Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, and Taiwan have seen either a decrease or stable imports, while Indonesia has shown a quarterly increase. The supply dynamics in the region are dominated by the United States, Australia, South Korea, Japan, and Egypt, with each country providing a significant share of exports at different times of the year.

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At the end of the 2021/22 season, Egypt became the largest exporter of fresh garden strawberries to the Malaysian market and continued to increase supplies in the current 2022/23 season, EastFruit reports. Moreover, the country continued to improve its overall position in the Southeast Asian market, taking fifth place in the ranking of exporters to this region. So, according to the results of the entire 2021/22 season (July-June), Egypt exported over 740 tons of fresh garden strawberries to the Malaysian market, which is almost two and a half times higher than the result of five years ago! In addition, since the 2020/21 season, Egypt has become the largest supplier of this berry to the Malaysian market, and in the first eight months of the current season managed to set a new supply record of almost 1 thousand tons! At the same time, Egypt has practically no competitors in Malaysia during the peak of its supplies, which falls on December-March. The second largest supplier of fresh ...

Source: Eastfruit